The event takes place at the Rose Garden arena in Portland, Ore.,
and will be headlined by a titular middleweight title confrontation
between Luke
Rockhold and Tim Kennedy.
The evening’s co-main event features a welterweight championship
showdown between Tyron
Woodley and Nate
Marquardt and airs on Showtime immediately following the
preliminary card broadcast on Showtime Extreme.

Healy, 28, rides a four-fight winning streak into his booking with
Hirota. After submitting to a Josh Thomson
rear-naked choke in 2010, “Bam Bam” posted consecutive decision
victories over Lyle
Beerbohm and Eric Wisely
before closing out 2011 with a submission win over Venezuelan
talent Maximo
Blanco. Most recently, the Oregonian was victorious in his
meeting with AMC Pankration product Caros Fodor,
submitting “The Future” with an arm-triangle choke on March 3.

Hirota is perhaps best known for his match with Dream titlist
Shinya
Aoki on New Year’s Eve 2009, the result of which was a broken
arm for the former Sengoku champ courtesy of an Aoki hammerlock.
The 31-year-old returned to competition in August of last year,
capturing the Deep lightweight title from Katsunori
Kikuno before defending the belt successfully on Feb. 18
against Seichi
Ikemoto.

One of Canada’s most promising talents, Mein had a six-fight
winning streak derailed by Woodley in his most recent outing on
Jan.7, falling to the former NCAA Division I wrestling All-American
via unanimous decision. “Young Gun” owns 20 of his 24 career wins
by either knockout or submission and holds notable wins over
Evangelista
Santos, Marius
Zaromskis and Josh
Burkman, among others.

Like his foe, Stinson also had a winning streak snapped in his last
outing, as “The Evolution” dropped a split decision to Team Quest
rep Tarec
Saffiedine in January. Prior to that loss, the 26-year-old had
won four straight fights, including a 15-second knockout of
Eduardo
Pamplona in his Strikeforce debut this past July.

Known as “The Kansas City Bandit,” High has racked up six
consecutive wins since his one-fight UFC stint ended in a unanimous
decision defeat to Charlie
Brenneman. The 30-year-old competed thrice in 2011, topping
Quinn
Mulhern in June before outpointing Todd Moore in
his last in-cage appearance this past September at Challengers
19.

Moore has won eight of his 10 pro outings but has not competed
since knocking out Nathan Coy in
January 2011. Prior to that win, Moore had split his first two
trips to the Strikeforce cage, finishing Louis
Taylor in his 2009 debut before falling by knockout to
Saffiedine the following year.